HMS Argonaut was a Dido-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which saw active service during the Second World War. Constructed at the Cammell Laird...
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Argonaut after the Argonauts of Greek mythology: HMS Argonaut (1782) was a 64-gun third rate, originally...
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SS Antenor (1924) UK auxiliary transport HMS Arethusa (26) UK combat vessel light cruiser HMS Argonaut (61) UK combat vessel light cruiser USS Arkansas (BB-33)...
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target HMS Ajax (22) Light cruiser Royal Navy Longues-sur-Mer battery HMS Argonaut (61) Light cruiser Royal Navy 105mm battery at Vaux (WN-50) HMS Emerald (D66)...
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HMS P311 was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy, the only boat of her class never to be given a name. She was to have received the name Tutankhamen...
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1982 Falklands War, three Batch Two conversions, HMS Argonaut, HMS Minerva and HMS Penelope Argonaut experienced 15 air attacks in San Carlos Sound and...
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Princess Royal. Afterwards, a second expedition was organized with the Argonaut and the Princess Royal. The second expedition culminated in the Nootka...
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away" from the exclusion zone. Captain Bonzo stated that any suggestion that HMS Conqueror's actions were a "betrayal" was utterly wrong; rather, the submarine...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
draw away Argentine aircraft from other ships at San Carlos Bay. HMS Argonaut and HMS Brilliant were moderately damaged. Many British ships escaped being...
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July, Uganda was relieved by HMS Argonaut. HMCS Uganda was detached from the US Navy's Third Fleet on 27 July when Argonaut arrived. Uganda proceeded to...
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HMS Achates was an A-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Completed in 1930, she initially served with the Mediterranean Fleet...
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Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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ship that eventually became HMS Penelope was originally intended as a Type 61 aircraft direction frigate to have been named HMS Coventry, as part of a second...
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HMS Hermes was a conventional British aircraft carrier and the last of the Centaur class. Hermes was in service with the Royal Navy from 1959 until 1984...
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Dido-class ships HMS Bonaventure, HMS Charybdis, HMS Hermione and HMS Naiad were lost in the war. The sole survivor, name ship HMS Dido, was put into...
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(Batch 2): HMS Cleopatra, HMS Arethusa (Batch 1, decommissioned April 1989), HMS Sirius, HMS Phoebe, HMS Danae, HMS Argonaut, HMS Penelope 8th Frigate Squadron...
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HMS Brilliant was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. Brilliant took part in the only ship-to-ship engagement of the Falklands War, when she and HMS Yarmouth...
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HMS Cardiff was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. Cardiff served...
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Niobe Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes Argus,...
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HMS Minerva (F45) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship commissioned in 1966 and took part in the Beira Patrol and Second Cod War during...
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frigates HMS Broadsword and Argonaut offloaded WE.177A training rounds at Gibraltar and Devonport in the UK before deploying to the South Atlantic. HMS Sheffield...
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"Argonaut Contact information". Argonaut Games. 13 January 1998. Archived from the original on 13 January 1998. Retrieved 9 November 2009. "Argonaut House...
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(Batch 2): HMS Cleopatra, HMS Arethusa (Batch 1, decommissioned April 1989), HMS Sirius, HMS Phoebe, HMS Danae, HMS Argonaut, HMS Penelope 8th Frigate Squadron...
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Ambuscade, HMS Avenger, HMS Arrow) Leander-class frigate (HMS Andromeda, HMS Argonaut, HMS Minerva, HMS Penelope) Rothesay-class frigate (HMS Yarmouth, HMS Plymouth)...
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Sinking Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine HMS Barham Association Website HMS Barham Archived 21 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, British...
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HMS Esperance was launched in America in 1781, and is first listed in Lloyd's Register in 1784 under the name Clementina. She then served as a slave ship...
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RMS Lusitania (section Argonaut expedition, 1935)
Glasgow-based expedition was launched to try to find the wreck of Lusitania. The Argonaut Corporation Ltd was founded and the salvage ship Orphir used to search...
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over several years and predated the existence of the first battlecruiser, HMS Invincible (a series of proposed battlecruiser designs was in fact submitted...
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known for her service with the Royal Navy (as mine countermeasures vessel HMS Junella) during the Falklands War. She was built in 1975 for J Marr & Son...
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of 52,000 shaft horsepower (38,776 kW) for a designed speed of 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph). The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them ranges of 8...
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